Posted on 09/28/2011 1:00:49 PM PDT by iowamark
So, are you saying that the Beatles, since they’ve already been mentioned, ought to have sung, instead of “You Can’t Do That”, “You Can’t Do Which”?
I often write in “Southern”, but always with proper punctuation. It can sometimes be quite the challenge to do so. It’ll give you more respect for how Samuel Clemmans was able to convey the venacular in his writings.
And for the record it’s y’all - not ya’ll or somethin’ else equally incorrect or ridiculous. The contraction is of “you all”.
AND what about “Then” and “Than”?
Effect and affect still get me. I choose another word if I can’t figure it out with my “cause and effect” type of thinking! Heh
You misspelled Obama.......
"Like" is what you do when you want to approve of a poster on Facebook. "As" is like when you copy them.
This will be a fun thread - ping for later
For me, it's a bad habit left-over of studying German where you capitalize nouns.
Sorry.
TS
Problem with a lot of these is spell check doesn’t do the job...error’s remain....Its like that old saying.....my tongue got in the way of my eye tooth and I couldn’t see what I was saying...
I never could diagram a sentence...it didn’t make cents to me.....:O)
that one was good for a couple of re-reads and a minute of laughs....
How about commas:
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
The Judge said the lawyer was crazy.
or
The Judge, said the lawyer, was crazy.
A panda went into the bar and ordered a sandwich. He finished the sandwich, pulled out a gun and fired a shot into the ceiling then calmly strolled out.
When questioned he said.
“I am a Panda, look it up”.
Panda,
Native to China, eats shoots and leaves.
(Thanks Lynn Truss)
“I was taught that the use of “which” always come after a comma. Otherwise, use that.”
I think you meant to say “Otherwise, which use that.” ;)
That is certainly the rule I was taught and to which I still adhere, mostly, but pluralizing an acronym with an apostrophe is now a practice accepted by most editors, especially in technical writing. It can lead to confusion, though:
The contraction: "Shewt-fahr, boy, that thar GTO's a fast sumbitch, ain't she?"
The possessive: "Shewt-fahr, boy, that thar GTO's paint job ain't improved none by that primer."
The plural: "Shewt-fahr, boy, how many o' them GTO's you done stole?"
As you can see, concision is occasionally the enemy of precision, to the point where the actual semantic content of the subject phrase can be reduced in an effort to standardize. The alternative is that rote memorization of proper usage that used to be a function of primary education before condoms on bananas took precedence in the intellectual toolkit conferred on young students. One cannot imagine the pedagogy of the latter being administered by nuns with rulers, and the children are, in my humble estimation, the poorer for it.
.....my baby....
my older sister had to write 500 times, There is no such a word as ain’t....the family never let her forget it...if any of us kids said “ain’t” after that, dad would reply...there is no such a word as ain’t..that was back in the 40’s......grammer was teached...
Most of these don't say anything about how you speak. They involve spelling. Grammar too, but you can speak very well and still make these mistakes when you write.
Now, that's funny!
In my neck of the woods, I often hear “sposably” instead of “supposedly.”
There’s also, in these parts, an odd habit of saying things such as “He needs fed” or “It needs washed” instead of “He needs feeding” or “It needs to be washed.”
I also hear many pseudo-intellectuals say that something “begs the question” when they mean it “raises the question.”
So many small annoyances exist purely to vex me...
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